The udaloy isnt really geared up for ASUW and yeah would require a sovremenny or something of the sort (slava kresta or kirov) but the fact is the udaloy has the ability to defend itself against ASM's while the perry doesnt (ok it has CIWS) the perry wouldnt be able to come with 4 or 5 missiles incoming (supersonic ones) it would be too quick for the CIWS and it wouldnt be able to target them if they were coming head on either.
The fact is the perry could be deemed more escort ship, its only saving grace is the helo's which wouldnt last long against many enamy ASUW units anyway before being shot down.
The only thing left for the perry is the 5 inch gun and with a range of just 10 miles the perry would probably already be dead before it got close enough to fire it.
The udaloy is a ASW destroyer so larger than the perry more heavily armed and able to conduct ASW and limited ASUW warfare being teamed with the sovremenny gives it full scope, the udaloy is also more capible in terms of manouvering ability speed and range uddy's can go for 8,500miles at 21 knots where the perry is 4,500 at 18 knots.
Udaloy doesnt number as much as the perry's it was never intended to, but to compliment the lack of numbers the russians use smaller grisha and krivak FFL's which are of similar size to perrys (krivak grishas are smaller) and to compliment them they have the nanchuka and trantul class.
Both udaloy and perry's need replacing the first perry was scrapped in 2005 and some are already laid up so they are showing the age now, the udaloys are mostly 20 years old a tiny bit newer than the perry but in need of replacing anyway same with the sovvy's.
I dont think many perrys will be around come 2015 a handful maybe.
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